Live-stock-spraying device.



No. 799,682. PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905. I. D. SMELSER.

LIVE STOCK SPRAYING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 11. 1905.

complete device.

UN ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIVE-STOCK-SPRAYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

Application filed February 11, 1905. Serial No. 245,206.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA D. SMELsER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Kellerton, Ringgold county, Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Live-Stock- Spraying Device, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for sprayinglive stock.

My invention consists in the construction,

arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointedout in my claims, andillustrated bythe accompanyingdrawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective illustrating my Fig. 2 is a detail view of thespraying portion of'the device, partly in section.

In the construction of the device, as shown, the numerals 1O 11 12 13designate vertical posts connected at their upper ends by crossbars 1A.Fences, frames, or guards 15 16 are mounted on the posts 11 and 12 13,respectively, opposite each other. The fences 16 may be parallel witheach other and may converge slightly toward their forward ends. Areceptacle 17 is mounted on and supported by the cross-bars 14, and apipe 18 communicates with and extends downward from said receptacle. Avalve is mounted in and controls the pipe 18, and a stem 19 extendslatere ally from said valve through the support 20, mounted on the posts12 13, and is provided with a cross-head 21 on its outer end. A lever 22is fulcrumed on the fence 16 and is connected by rods or wires 23 24 onopposite sides of its fulcrum to the opposite end portions of thecross-head 21. A cross 25 is mounted on the lower end of the pipe 18 andhas lateral ports extending in opposite directions toward the fences 1516. A rose spraying device 26 is fixed to the lowermost opening of thecross 25 and is directed downward. Pipes 27 28 communicate with thelateral ports of the cross 25 and extend toward the fences 15 16,respectively, are bent downward along said fences, and are bent inwardat their lower ends from said fences. Rose spraying devices 29 30 aremounted on and communicate with the lower end portions of the pipes 2728 and are directed obliquely upward and inward therefrom.

In practical use the receptacle 17 is supplied with any desired sprayingfluid, such as a vermicide, insecticide, disinfectant, or antisepticsolution, and such fluid is discharged through the pipe 18 under thecontrol of the valve-stem 19, manually operated through the lever 22 andits connections to the cross 25. From the cross 25 the liquid isdischarged through the rose spraying devices 26, 29, and 30 against ananimal being driven through the chute formed by the fences 15 16. Thepipes 27 28 are imperforate, except at their ends, where they join thecross 25 and where they are supplied with the rose spraying devices 2930. The animals may be driven in a continuous stream through the chuteand the spraying solution be applied thereto continuously, or the flowof liquid may be cut on and off by an operator manipulating the lever22.

I claim as my invention 1. Alivestock-sprayingdevice, comprising achute, a forked tube partially embracing said chute, and sprayingdevices mounted on said forked tube and directed inward of the chute.

2. A live-stock-spraying device, comprising a forked tube, sprayingdevices on said tube and directed inwardly and means for supplyingliquid to said forked tube.

3. A livestock-spraying device, comprising a receptacle, avalve-controlled pipe leading from said receptacle, a forked tube onsaid pipe and spraying devices on said forked tube and directedinwardly.

4:. Alive-stock-sprayingdevice, comprising a chute, a receptacle locatedabove said chute, a pipe leading downward from said receptacle,

a valve controlling the flow of liquid through said pipe, tubesbranching from said pipe, a rose spraying device at the junction of saidpipe and tubes and rose spraying devices on the opposite ends of saidtubes, all of said spraying devices directed inwardly.

5. A live-stock-spraying device, comprising a chute, a forkedsupplying-tube partially embracingsaid chute and spraying devicesmounted on said forked supplying-tube and directed to a common pointwithin said chute.

6. Alive-stock spraying device, comprising a chute, a receptaclesupported by said chute, a supplying-pipe leading from said receptacle,a cross on said supplying-pipe, a rose spraying device on said cross,tubes diverging from said cross to the sides of the chute, extendingdownof its fulcrum and the extremities of said ward along said sides anddirected inwardly cross-head. l0 and upwardly at their lower ends, rosespray- Signed by me at Kellerton,Ringgold county, ing devices on saidlower ends of the tubes, a Iowa, this 6th day of December, 1904:-

5 valve controlling said supplying-pipe, a stem IRA D. SMELSER.

on said valve, a cross-head on said stem, a le- Witnesses: ver fulcrumedon said chute, and connections R. EMERSON, between points of the leveron opposite sides J EANNETTE BLAIR.

